The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Anarchy in the Levant: Your Future Dream Is a Chaos Scheme Pepe Escobar Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started. Syria as we knew it is being eviscerated in real time – in geographic, cultural, economic and military terms – by an appalling confluence of mercenary Rent-a-Jihadi mobs and psychopathological genocidals praying at the altar of Eretz Israel. All of that is fully supported by rabid NATOstan hyenas – masters of narrative control – and fully intertwined with the eradication of Palestine. Across the avowedly dejected Global Majority, there’s a feeling that the momentarily exhausted Axis of Resistance will need to go turbo-Sisyphus to rearrange, resupply and recalibrate the defense of Palestine. Predictably, there’s not a peep across the NATOstan sphere about Tel Aviv’s feral, indiscriminate bombing and snatching of sovereign Syrian territory. That represents a glaring illustration of the “rules-based i...

  American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality  Ron Unz   Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America’s most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his areas of special expertise. During subsequent decades, Freeman served as our ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War and was afterward appointed as an assistant secretary of defense. Then in early 2009, the Obama Administration nominated him as chairman of our National Intelligence Council, responsible for assessing and aggregating the findings of our 17 different intelligence agencies, and then providing the final report to our president and other top leaders. But the Israel Lobby regarded Freeman as insufficiently loyal to the foreign na...